Bogdan TARU wrote: > If ending a symlink with a slash is supposed to mean 'refer to the > directory it points to', I imagine ending a directory with a slash is even > more so. Then why, oh, why, 'cp -R' copies only the content of the > directory in the new location???? > > man cp: > > -R If source_file designates a directory, cp copies the directory and > the entire subtree connected at that point. > > Why do I have the feeling something goes terribly wrong here?
A blank path component implies ".". It always has in BSD. There are man pages to this effect (though you will have to zgrep for them yourself). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message